The transcript of Ray Rice's appeal hearing included the revelation that Ravens president Dick Cass attempted to coach the running back's testimony in order to portray a muted version of the Atlantic City, N.J., domestic assault.

In the account published on ESPN.com, NFLPA lawyer Heather McPhee testified during the hearing that Rice was advised by Cass to describe the incident a certain way before meeting with commissioner Roger Goodell on June 16.

"[Cass] said, ‘I completely agree with what Heather just said, Ray – be yourself,” McPhee testified, according to ESPN.com. “I would suggest there are different ways to describe what happened honestly, and it would be truthful to say [you] ‘lay [your] hands on' " Janay Palmer.

"So I said, ‘Well, Dick, I see what you are saying. I would respectfully suggest that sounds ... as an attempt to soften the description of what occurred in the altercation," McPhee testified. "So I was trying to sort of not say, ‘Please don’t use that language that the president of your team just said,’ but to me it sounded like a suggestion that he tried to soften the language. Ray had always used consistent language with me and it was never anything about laying hands on his wife."

The league cited inconsistencies in Rice's version of events to Goodell as grounds for the league issuing an indefinite suspension in September.

Rice appealed the league's decision and the suspension, heard by judger serving as a neutral arbitrator, was overturned. Rice was re-instated, but hasn't found a team.

In the same transcript obtained by "Outside the Lines" report, there appeared to be inconsistencies in Goodell's testimony regarding the league's attempt to obtain the full elevator video that went viral, showing Rice punching his wife.